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May 17, 2022 - House of Representatives holds first hearing on the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO's, in over fifty years, prompted by declassified photos and video of military pilots and others sighting objects in the sky that seemed to defy known flight capabilities. Footage of three Navy pilots sighting what are now called, "unidentified aerial phenomena" had been released on August 30, 2021, raising the concern.
There had been a long history of potential Unidentified Flying Objects throughout the centuries, as far back as 1450 B.C., as well as fictional depictions in Comic Books, the War of the Worlds scare by Orson Welles, World War II pilots sighting what they called the Foo Fighters, and questions about Roswell, New Mexico on July 8, 1947. Project Blue Book, a secret Air Force investigation into these events, proved that the United States Government had questions about the mysterious sightings. And there had been rumors about pilots who had witnessed craft they could not explain. However, administration after administration would rebuke those claims, probably because we couldn't take it, us weak citizens, or also because, from a military standpoint, they did not wish to admit they might be ours, our Earth enemies, or folks from a more advanced society somewhere else.
Finally, in June 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report. There had been one hundred and forty-four encounters by military personnel from 2004 until 2021. Eighteen showed unusual movement.
"Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.
In August 2021, there was a release of the now named Unidentified Aerial Phenomena videos shot by Navy pilots in 2014, as well as other potential UAP sightings. Yes, late to the game, the old heads in the House of Representatives finally woke up, and held a hearing about the subject in May of the next year. Sorry, lower house, not all your members are old heads, but most are tardy to the technical outer space party.
On May 17, 2022, the Subcommittee met with Congressman Andre Carson from Indiana as its chair. There were ten representatives present; Representatives Carson, Schiff, Welch, Himes, Krishnamoorthi, Wenstrup, Crawford, Gallagher, Mullin, and LaHood. The committee acknowledged Project Blue Book and the recently established, "The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group," in 2017 by the Department of Defense to study UAPs.
For decades the idea of UFO's was considered a crackpot theory, which caused pilots to report few incidents. As they acknowledged its national security implications, that stigma would no longer apply. Many still thought, and it might be true, that the scary objects in the sky were tests by the Russian or Chinese military of hypersonic weapons.
History Press Reports on UFO Sightings and Hearing
July 3, 1947, New York Times. "Flying Disks Fail to Stir Air Forces. Washington, July 3 (AP) A preliminary inquiry into reports that strange "flying disks" have been whizzing at 1,200 miles per hour over the Western United States "has not produced enough fact to warrant further investigation," an Army Air Forces spokesman said today.
The official said, "we don't have a thing that would give any realism" to a report made last week by a flying Boise (Idaho) businessman. He said he saw nine mysterious objects - big as airplanes - racing over Washington State's Cascade Range. Several other persons in widely scattered localities later said they had glimpsed similar objects.
The Air Forces spokesman said the Army has no new experimental planes or guided missiles which would fit such a description. He said Air Forces people are inclined to believe either that the observers just imagined they saw something or that there is some meteorological explanation for the phenomenon.
However, Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) public relations officials said the Air Materiel Command is making an investigation of "saucer-shaped" missiles seen recently in the Pacific, Northwest and Texas.
Describing conversations with a meteorologist from Langley Field, the Washington Air Forces spokesman said these meteorological "maybes" have been discussed: That solar reflections on low-hanging clouds produced spectral "flashes" which might have appeared like moving objects. That a small meteor might have broken up. That icing conditions in high clouds produced "large hailstones which might have flattened out and glided a bit."
May 17, 2022, National Public Radio "The military's UFO database now has info from about 400 reported incidents."
A database of reports of UFOs now includes about 400 incidents, up from 143 assessed in a report released about a year ago, a Navy intelligence official told lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
The military's 2021 report said no evidence of aliens had been found. Scott W. Bray, the deputy director of Naval intelligence, told lawmakers that they still haven't uncovered anything "nonterrestrial in origin," even though there are incidents they can't explain.
None of the documented objects had attempted to communicate with U.S. aviators, and no attempt had been made to communicate with them, he said, as they all appeared to be unmanned.
Reports of unidentified flying objects - now called unexplained aerial phenomena or UAPs by the military - have been increasing, said Bray. He cited improved sensors, an increase in drones and other non-military unmanned aerial systems, and "aerial clutter" such as Mylar balloons as causes of the uptick."
History of Sightings Since 2000
2000-10-05, Bonsall UFO sighting, United Kingdom.
2004-10-31, Tinley Park Lights, United States; Illinois On Halloween night.
2004-11-14, Pilots from the USS Nimitz, UFO incident, United States; Off the coast of San Diego, California.
2006-11-07, United Airlines pilots report sighting, which disappeared in rapid vertical ascension, O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting, United States; Chicago, Illinois.
2007-04-23, Alderney UFO sighting, Bailiwick of Guernsey; airline pilots and passengers report sunlight-colored object.
2007-11-28 to 2011-12-13, Series of black triangle sightings named the Dudley Dorito, United Kingdom; West Midlands.
2008-06-20, South Wales police helicopter evades what was described as saucer-shaped UFO, United Kingdom.
2010-01-25 Harbour Mille incident where three UFO's shaped like missiles, but with no noise were seen, Canada; Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador.
2014-06-02 to 2015-03-10, USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents, East Coast of the United States. Navy pilots notice unexplained objects on their radar after an equipment upgrade. Some pilots captured video footage, later released to the public. The pilots reported these incidents to the then-obscure Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program resulting in new guidelines regarding unexplained aerial phenomena sightings.
2023-02-15, Ukrainian military cigar-shaped UAP observation Ukraine, Ukrainian military researchers described a single vertical, cigar-shaped UAP. Its size was 0.3-0.5 m, velocity as 250 m/s, altitude as 200-300 m.
2023-04-19, AARO Middle East 2022 MQ-9 orb video Middle East At a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing, AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick presented an MQ-9 infrared clip from July 12, 2022 that showed a small metallic orb crossing the sensor field of view. AARO said the object did not display anomalous behavior given the limited data.
2024-02-24, Ukrainian military disc or cigar-shaped UAP observation Ukraine; Ukrainian war zone Ukrainian military researchers described a single disc- or cigar-shaped UAP.
2024-03-28, Ukrainian military in-line spherical UAP formation; Ukrainian military researchers described an in-line formation of four spherical UAP. They listed the objects' size as 2-2.9 m, velocity as 76.2-110.8 m/s, altitude as 100-150 m.
2025-09-09 Yemen orb missile engagement video, off the coast. At a House Oversight hearing, a congressman played MQ-9 footage from 30 October 2024 that he said showed a Hellfire missile striking a bright orb and the orb continuing unaffected.
History Video - UFO's and UAP's
Throughout history there has been the wonder, are there others out there in the universe or beyond, with odd shapes in the sky traversing that we don't understand. Watch this fun video that takes you on a video journey of the past until 2021, when the United States Government admitted and released video of what they call Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, UAP, and what we call UFO's. Videos include those released by the USA, NASA, and others.
Project Blue Book
The third Air Force project (Project Sign 1947, Project Grudge 1948) to attack the problem began in 1952. It would last for seventeen years and investigated 12,618 cases. Its headquarters was at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. There was a report by the University of Colorado, and Project Blue Book in their 1985 synopsis fact sheet contended that none of their investagations indicated a threat to National Security, or scientific principles beyond that known at the time, and they categorically denied that they were extraterrestial.
That may have been an honest evaluation of the data, or for the skeptics, another way to stigmatize or minimize what could not be fully explained. They also stated that "nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOs."
A television series was created in 2019-2020 that spent twenty episodes in this entertaining and fictionalized theatrical production based around some true events. It is now available on Prime Video under the same name, Project Blue Book.
Photo above: Montage (left) Photo of potential UFO, but likely a hoax in McMinnville, 1950, Paul Trent, Picryl.com. (right) Project Blue Book status report, 1951/1953, U.S. Air Force. Photo below: Parking sign for UFO's in Alamo, Nevada, 2020, Michael Herron. Info source: "UFOs and UAP: History, sightings and mysteries," 2021, Mike Wall, space.com; "UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA, Committee Hearing Transcript, Tuesday, May 17, 2022," U.S. House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation, Washington, D.C.; "The military's UFO database now has info from about 400 reported incidents," 2022, Christopher Deane Hopkins, Giles Snyder, NPR.org; "U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet Concerning UFOs and Project BLUE BOOK," 1985, U.S. Air Force; "Project Blue Book," IMDB; Wikipedia Commons.
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President Joe Biden, 2021, Adam Schultz. Courtesy Executive Office, Official Portrait, via Wikipedia Commons.
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On May 17, 2022, the Subcommittee met with Congressman Andre Carson from Indiana as its chair. There were ten representatives present; Representatives Carson, Schiff, Welch, Himes, Krishnamoorthi, Wenstrup, Crawford, Gallagher, Mullin, and LaHood. The committee acknowledged Project Blue Book and the recently established, "The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group," in 2017 by the Department of Defense to study UAPs.
For decades the idea of UFO's was considered a crackpot theory, which caused pilots to report few incidents. As they acknowledged its national security implications, that stigma would no longer apply. Many still thought, and it might be true, that the scary objects in the sky were tests by the Russian or Chinese military of hypersonic weapons.
The official said, "we don't have a thing that would give any realism" to a report made last week by a flying Boise (Idaho) businessman. He said he saw nine mysterious objects - big as airplanes - racing over Washington State's Cascade Range. Several other persons in widely scattered localities later said they had glimpsed similar objects.
The Air Forces spokesman said the Army has no new experimental planes or guided missiles which would fit such a description. He said Air Forces people are inclined to believe either that the observers just imagined they saw something or that there is some meteorological explanation for the phenomenon.
However, Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) public relations officials said the Air Materiel Command is making an investigation of "saucer-shaped" missiles seen recently in the Pacific, Northwest and Texas.
Describing conversations with a meteorologist from Langley Field, the Washington Air Forces spokesman said these meteorological "maybes" have been discussed: That solar reflections on low-hanging clouds produced spectral "flashes" which might have appeared like moving objects. That a small meteor might have broken up. That icing conditions in high clouds produced "large hailstones which might have flattened out and glided a bit."
May 17, 2022, National Public Radio "The military's UFO database now has info from about 400 reported incidents."
A database of reports of UFOs now includes about 400 incidents, up from 143 assessed in a report released about a year ago, a Navy intelligence official told lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
The military's 2021 report said no evidence of aliens had been found. Scott W. Bray, the deputy director of Naval intelligence, told lawmakers that they still haven't uncovered anything "nonterrestrial in origin," even though there are incidents they can't explain.
None of the documented objects had attempted to communicate with U.S. aviators, and no attempt had been made to communicate with them, he said, as they all appeared to be unmanned.
Reports of unidentified flying objects - now called unexplained aerial phenomena or UAPs by the military - have been increasing, said Bray. He cited improved sensors, an increase in drones and other non-military unmanned aerial systems, and "aerial clutter" such as Mylar balloons as causes of the uptick."
2004-10-31, Tinley Park Lights, United States; Illinois On Halloween night.
2004-11-14, Pilots from the USS Nimitz, UFO incident, United States; Off the coast of San Diego, California.
2006-11-07, United Airlines pilots report sighting, which disappeared in rapid vertical ascension, O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting, United States; Chicago, Illinois.
2007-04-23, Alderney UFO sighting, Bailiwick of Guernsey; airline pilots and passengers report sunlight-colored object.
2007-11-28 to 2011-12-13, Series of black triangle sightings named the Dudley Dorito, United Kingdom; West Midlands.
2008-06-20, South Wales police helicopter evades what was described as saucer-shaped UFO, United Kingdom.
2010-01-25 Harbour Mille incident where three UFO's shaped like missiles, but with no noise were seen, Canada; Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador.
2014-06-02 to 2015-03-10, USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents, East Coast of the United States. Navy pilots notice unexplained objects on their radar after an equipment upgrade. Some pilots captured video footage, later released to the public. The pilots reported these incidents to the then-obscure Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program resulting in new guidelines regarding unexplained aerial phenomena sightings.
2023-02-15, Ukrainian military cigar-shaped UAP observation Ukraine, Ukrainian military researchers described a single vertical, cigar-shaped UAP. Its size was 0.3-0.5 m, velocity as 250 m/s, altitude as 200-300 m.
2023-04-19, AARO Middle East 2022 MQ-9 orb video Middle East At a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing, AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick presented an MQ-9 infrared clip from July 12, 2022 that showed a small metallic orb crossing the sensor field of view. AARO said the object did not display anomalous behavior given the limited data.
2024-02-24, Ukrainian military disc or cigar-shaped UAP observation Ukraine; Ukrainian war zone Ukrainian military researchers described a single disc- or cigar-shaped UAP.
2024-03-28, Ukrainian military in-line spherical UAP formation; Ukrainian military researchers described an in-line formation of four spherical UAP. They listed the objects' size as 2-2.9 m, velocity as 76.2-110.8 m/s, altitude as 100-150 m.
2025-09-09 Yemen orb missile engagement video, off the coast. At a House Oversight hearing, a congressman played MQ-9 footage from 30 October 2024 that he said showed a Hellfire missile striking a bright orb and the orb continuing unaffected.
History Video - UFO's and UAP's
That may have been an honest evaluation of the data, or for the skeptics, another way to stigmatize or minimize what could not be fully explained. They also stated that "nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOs."
A television series was created in 2019-2020 that spent twenty episodes in this entertaining and fictionalized theatrical production based around some true events. It is now available on Prime Video under the same name, Project Blue Book.
Photo above: Montage (left) Photo of potential UFO, but likely a hoax in McMinnville, 1950, Paul Trent, Picryl.com. (right) Project Blue Book status report, 1951/1953, U.S. Air Force. Photo below: Parking sign for UFO's in Alamo, Nevada, 2020, Michael Herron. Info source: "UFOs and UAP: History, sightings and mysteries," 2021, Mike Wall, space.com; "UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA, Committee Hearing Transcript, Tuesday, May 17, 2022," U.S. House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation, Washington, D.C.; "The military's UFO database now has info from about 400 reported incidents," 2022, Christopher Deane Hopkins, Giles Snyder, NPR.org; "U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet Concerning UFOs and Project BLUE BOOK," 1985, U.S. Air Force; "Project Blue Book," IMDB; Wikipedia Commons.
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President Joe Biden, 2021, Adam Schultz. Courtesy Executive Office, Official Portrait, via Wikipedia Commons.
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